Most Expensive Tires
Written by: jeremy Filed Under: Vehicles, World on July 16th, 2009
The 1929 Leyland Lion
A British transportation museum may have just purchased the world’s most expensive tires.
The Lincolnshire Road Transport Museum’s premier exhibit, a 1929 Leyland Lion bus, required new tires to make it roadworthy for the museum’s 50th anniversary. In order to replace the old and significantly cracked tires, the museum was eventually forced to order specialty tiles from America.
The Leyland Lion is the only surviving example of its model, the other three having been scrapped after serving as transport during World War II. This particular bus was used as a snowplow until it became the museum’s first acquisition around 1954.
The most expensive tires in the world cost the museum over $800 each. In comparison, normal bus tires cost around $250.
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I seem to remember that monster truck (like Bigfoot and Grave Digger, for example) tires cost WAY more than $800. I believe those tires cost on the order of $10K. Moreover, I’m pretty certain that the world’s largest dump truck / earth mover, the Komatsu 930E-2, has tires that cost far more than $800 per.
You’re not even close……heavy equipment tires can cost in the 10’s of $1000’s. Refer to Feb. ‘09 Popular Mechanics….cost of a replacement tire for a LeTourneau L-2350 front-loader is $105,000.00. They are often run with full coverage chains to make them last longer than the normal year or less.
this is way off, the tires on a superbike can cost over $1000 each.
The tires on the Catapillar 797B Dump Truck is $25,000 EACH